Distorting God's word

[theFijian]

I saw nothing here that even remotely could convince me of your argument.
Maybe because they are described exactly as such. I can't imagine a story that talks about days that include an evening and a morning and not thinking they were 24 hour days. It's only those who are willing to allow man-made ideas to distort the truth of God's Word who could see it differently.

But there was neither morning nor evening on the seventh day. And why doesn't the bible tells us there were 24 hours in a day? Sounds like a man-made idea to me...

 

[Assyrian]

I can't imagine a story that talks about days that include an evening and a morning and not thinking they were 24 hour days. It's only those who are willing to allow man-made ideas to distort the truth of God's Word who could see it differently.

I am not sure a lack of imagination is really such a great advantage, especially for a follower of Jesus Christ. The disciples were constantly trying to get their heads around his metaphors and parables.

Matt 20:1-16 "For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and to them he said, 'You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.' 5 So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, 'Why do you stand here idle all day?' 7 They said to him, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You go into the vineyard too.' 8 And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.' 9 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. 10 Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. 11 And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, 12 saying, 'These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.' 13 But he replied to one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. 15 Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?' 16 So the last will be first, and the first last."
Morning, evening, regular time checks, daily pay rate... How long do you think Jesus was really talking about when he talked about a day in the vineyard? How long was an hour?

 

[redghost]

Well, it's because God's seventh day Sabbath rest isn't over yet:

For we who have believed enter that rest, as He has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest,' although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.

For He has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works."
And again in this passage He said, "They shall not enter my rest."

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it ...

- Hebrews 4:3-5

So there's at least one "day" in Genesis 1-2 that isn't a 24-hour period. (Three if you include the ones in Gen 1:5 and 2:4; by a literalist viewpoint, the former was less than 24 hours long and the latter was much longer.)

And why exactly was it that YECs considered the six days of Genesis 1 24-hour-days?

Excellent point. This is one of the main exegetical reasons vern poythress accepts the analogical day approach to genesis chapter 1-2. You can read more in his book "redeeming science". Dr. Poythress has taught at Westminster seminary for many years and is a very conservative bible scholar.